Iva Demilcol
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It's basically Inception in High School.
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Persona 5 Review Thread
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It's basically Inception in High School.
NinjaCoachZ
Member
Yeah, that's the one thing that sucks. Kanji may not have been handled perfectly but I thought for sure him and FeMC would be paving the way for Atlus having further queer characters and female protags. Ah well.
Yup, P5's Japanese cast is truly excellent. I'm really thankful for Atlus for finally giving us a dual audio option this time.
true voice = original vision of the dev team
eng dub = not original vision of the dev team
Via Purifico
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Audioboxer
Member
Mother of God.
And I have a brutal assignment to have finished for like a week after this releases. FML.
And I have a brutal assignment to have finished for like a week after this releases. FML.
It's the true voice. If you truly believe games are art, you'd treat them like every other medium, where it's preferable to watch the movie or work in its original language the way the director intended.
You may LIKE the dub of whatever it is, but it's not the original. For example, this has nothing to do with Japanese voices specifically, to be perfectly honest - if it was a German movie that was dubbed with American voices I know I'd want to hear it in German, not in English.
Marmaladefire
Member
That post is literally only relevant if you really like shounen and romantic comedy anime a lot. The dub is good by all accounts, despite the year long whine fest about it. It's really just an extension of the waifu wars lol. And I say this as someone who really likes a lot of the Japanese VA. But I'll be playing in English because I prefer to comprehend vocal nuance in games like this, and..It's a 100 hour game.
Localization is a little different I think. Games can be art without operating by the same rules as other art. A game dub by an international branch of the same company that developed the game isn't invalid. And games aren't passive viewing experiences. They are immersive. Language and linguistic nuance is a big part of investment and immersion for many people.
Everyone forgets Maya.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
After all these years ppl still have to preach the whole sub thing. Just say you love it nd move on.
Hoho for breakfast
Member
Hell: re7, nioh, persona, nier, zelda. All fantastic.
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
I wanna post this...Again. Great time to be a fan of Japanese games.
This is so meta that is not funny.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Understanding the battle quote spam makes it worse: "Take this!" "How about that!?" "YES, we won!" "I feel a little stronger!" "OH NO the leader is poisoned, someone do something!" If I could play the game with German or Cantonese voices for the combat, I would.
Iva Demilcol
Member
Persona and Persona 2 don't exist. Persona is a weird series that started with Persona 3, like Star Wars that started with Episode IV
Aaronrules380
Member
I mean that's more the premise than the story though
DecoReturns
Member
Games seems good. Sucks that school starts when its out, will have to wait a while to play.
After Wind Waker and BOTW, Link would be the one to take the selfies
After Wind Waker and BOTW, Link would be the one to take the selfies
Rynocirator
Member
Tatsuya remembers
jack_package_200
Banned
Gotta admit, Majima and Kiryu are handsome devils
Marmaladefire
Member
Maya was the MC of the second installment of a game that doesn't share the structure of the current iteration of the series, and thus, for the purposes that people want a female MC now (S.Links, perspective, maybe a lack of fawining over a male insert ~senpai~ fantasy and better character development in place of it.
wow P4 's legacy has left a bitter taste in my mouth
Exactly.
Seriously, Reyn's battle quotes still haunt me to these days.
"MAN, WHAT A BUNCH'A JOKERS"
Fuck off.
You're phrasing it a little weird. The english dub are for accessibility reasons. Not everyone has watched enough subtitled content to be able to subconsciously absorb the text without actually having to 'read' it, while being simultaneously able to understand and see everything on screen without distraction.
A dub is a compromise, but that's not a bad thing. It's just not the 'optimal' experience for someone that doesn't speak the language, IMO.
Of course, both of these pale to just learning the damn language.
also allowing the text to be translated
in the director's vision, it was all in japanese
They make a joke about they're skipping a meeting to record the quicklook and how everyone leaving them alone because they have to play Persona would be the one benefit of playing this game the site.
But no, they're not doing one.
oh god. i just realized that i'm thinking about this subject in english. i'm going to stop lest my impure thoughts somehow drag down the metascore again
Rushersauce
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Iva Demilcol
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Tinfoilhatsron
Banned
Persona 3 was the first Persona, right?
Needs a RE7 rep.D:
I fucking loved the battle dialog in that game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP3Yc0pSAGw
It was so repetitive that it actually grew on me.
Same, if that shit was in JP i'd had no problems with it.
Please for the love of god give us the option in Xenoblade 2 for JP voices.
NinjaCoachZ
Member
What do Persona, Fallout, Devil May Cry, and Metal Gear have in common? Everyone thinks they start with 3.
This is a game series that lets you date every female character in the game. Not even Witcher 3 lets you do that. That should tell you what kind of demographic this game is aiming for.
Marmaladefire
Member
One of these is not like the others.
Kanji's handling and the retconning, backtracking and handwringing over Naoto annoys me to no end. The very issues they logically could have/should have/ would have bonded over is just now considered "no you're just misunderstanding and inserting your own agenda." Also, Yosuke's constant casual homophobia. Ugh
In a perfect world, it would be. I sure wish it was always that way.
That being said, I'm not anti-dub. There are good dubs. There are dubs that I have personally preferred to the JP voice version.
It's still not the 'original' if that makes sense.
truestatic
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Who am I looking at in the left front and right back?
Tinfoilhatsron
Banned
Obviously Fallout. That didn't start until Fallout: NV.
The artistic vision stuff is real dumb. People don't write scripts having only one specific actor that can be capable of playing the character. The voice actors give life to the characters, but pretending that the actors are acting 100% as the person who originally envisioned the story imagined it to be is silly.